The Indiana Court of Appeals declined to decide whether a trial court erred in concluding an ex-city attorney violated the
Rules of Professional Conduct when he acted as the lawyer for a defendant in a suit brought by the city.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the denial of four motions to suppress evidence and exclude expert testimony in a
case where a man was caught trying to launder money by stuffing the bills into a slot machine at the Horseshoe Casino in Hammond.

The Indiana Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction against the Indiana High School Athletic Association in a case
involving a fight between Griffith and Hammond High Schools last year that allowed both schools to participate in the IHSAA
tournament. The COA said the trial court improperly added its own judgment and remanded the case to the trial court for further
proceedings.

The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals said there was enough evidence against two officers accused of excessive force while arresting
a Hammond man to create material dispute and therefore reversed summary judgment for the officers. The case was remanded to
District Court for further proceedings.

Hammond’s sanitary district had no statutory authority to cancel wastewater treatment contracts with the neighboring
Lake County towns of Griffith, Highland and Whiting, the Indiana Court of Appeals ruled Monday, affirming the trial court
in a split opinion.

A cellphone video released Tuesday shows police in Indiana breaking a car window then using a stun gun on a man after police
stopped the driver for not wearing a seat belt. The video, recorded by the driver's 14-year-old son, captured a Sept.
24 confrontation between two adults in the car and police that's the basis of a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court against
several officers and the city of Hammond.

Two judges on the Indiana Court of Appeals Wednesday believed that a Hammond resident didn’t have the benefit of an
impartial decision maker in the proceeding that ordered demolition of his property. They believed the city attorney, whose
office prosecuted the case, couldn’t sit on the city board that conducted the hearing.

A federal magistrate in Hammond has ruled there were no violations of the Indiana Professional Rules of Conduct when defense
counsel interviewed a potential witness in preparation for trial after discovery had closed.

A U.S. District judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed in Hammond by a labor union challenging the state’s right-to-work
law for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted. Chief Judge Philip P. Simon in the Northern District of
Indiana did allow two counts claiming the law violates the Indiana Constitution to proceed in state court.

A member of the Latin Kings street gang and two associates have been sentenced to prison for racketeering conspiracy and other
crimes in support of the gang, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Indiana announced Thursday.

Federal prosecutors this week indicted five people and three affiliated companies on charges of defrauding Medicaid of millions
of dollars, according to the office of U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Indiana David Capp.

A federal judge in Hammond has entered a default against former ear, nose and throat doctor Mark Weinberger and other defendants
for their noncooperation with his medical malpractice insurance company regarding hundreds of pending malpractice claims.